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We can go from boom to bust -From dreams to a bowl of dust- We can fall from rockets' red glare- Down to "Brother can you spare..." Another war, Another wasteland ..And another lost generation

Can you think of a movie where the good guys make create a big plan, a lot of screen time is put towards it, and...poof..it ends up not working so great?

Spock's goof in TREK XI might rank up there. Can you think of others?

Rob

I'm going to, in part, mention the final battle plan in ID4. Their plan:

Take these 15-mile wide spaceships and disable their defenses. It's a miracle that could even work considering at that time Windows would shit itself if you tried to get hook-up a new printer to it. But, somehow, -even with a Mac- Goldblum's character is able to hack into a completely alien computer system that scientists have only had access to for a couple days and disable it's defenses. Fine, though, that part ended up working.

The next part, miracle of miracles, ends up working as the psionic aliens don't gleam this plan, but they're able to comunicate this plan and organize it within hours by using morse code! But, fine, that worked.

So the fighters around Area 51 take off -led by the POTUS, like he would even be alowed to go up no matter what he thinls- and they fire off all of their missiles on their fighter jets, while also fighting off the alien fighters. Now, the alien ship is huge so they likely outnumber the earth fighters by 1000:1. But, fine, the earth-fighters are able to fight off the shit-loads of alien fighters. So they attack they huge mothership with their missiles, end up firing all of them and do nothing to the mothership. Gee! Go figure! The president misses his last shot at the alien ship core. They're screwed.

If only their was a drunken crop-duster pilot to save them!

Sure, it wasn't a big blunder as it miracuously ended up working -they communicated another world-wide morse code message how to take down the huge alien ship with one friggin missile from an earth fighter-crafy. But it very nearly was.

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We can go from boom to bust -From dreams to a bowl of dust- We can fall from rockets' red glare- Down to "Brother can you spare..." Another war, Another wasteland ..And another lost generation